Narges Mohammadi, currently in prison, is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 2023, "for her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and her fight to promote human rights and freedom for all".
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/2023/press-release/
Putin's head propagandist Margarita Simonyan yesterday on Simonyan's own show (pic: screenshot) proposed nuking Russia, more specifically Siberia, saying there is nothing wrong with a nuclear explosion over Siberia and that because it is hundreds of kilometers away [uhhm, people do live in Siberia...] there will be no resulting nuclear winter, no resulting cancer deaths, but all radio electronics and satellites will be disabled to take revenge on the "West".
Obviously astounding lunacy, so I hope I won't have to comment in detail...
“We'll go back to something like 1993 – with wired telephones. We lived wonderfully... I forbid my children from having gadgets, then I won’t have to explain why everyone has gadgets and they don't", selfish Simonyan went on to explain.
Today, politicians and others are responding e.g. calling for prosecution for suggesting nuking Russia.
https://todon.eu/system/media_attachments/files/111/176/167/764/647/719/original/81734226977255b9.png
"NO TO NATO! – No alliance with fascists"
"Swedish weapons murder – Stop the weapons export"
"No to NATO – Yes to PKK"
"Not one soldier! Not one rifle! Not one crown [=coin] to NATO's military!"
"Mobilize for the climate not militarism"
"Women Life Freedom"
Some of the slogans and banners at the demo against NATO-membership in Stockholm today, as reported by the Firat News Agency (ANF).
The article should be translated tomorrow.
https://todon.eu/system/media_attachments/files/111/155/835/357/015/726/original/30b54ea8a5405363.mp4
I don't really know (and don't care enough to check) why, but a recently recurring question online, now even in major news-media, is "how often do you think about the Roman Empire" and apparently people identified as men think about it... a lot, in some cases they claim "daily".
What is not brought up much it seems is questions like "what are those thoughts" and "what was the context that may have triggered them?".
I probably "think about the Roman Empire" on average at least once a month, because it is brought up in university lectures on archeology, etc and the most common thoughts I have on the topic is that imperialism, authoritarianism and genocide is bad and the Roman Empire caused immense harm wiping out previous cultures for its own benefit leaving a tradition of "glory" in subjugation and militarism while the "positives" are questionable and when real would probably have spread anyway and I wonder what would have happened if e.g more trade-oriented Carthage or confederation-based Germanic/Celtic tribes would have won instead of more military conquest, occupation and eradication-based Rome.
People going on and on about how the Roman Empire was somehow "good" on the other hand, either whitewash or promote some of the worst acts through human history and tend towards actual Fascism.
And again, it's a day of widespread protests against inhumane conditions for pensioners under the Iran-regime, primarily regarding the below starvation level pensions which hasn't been inflation adjusted for many years of extreme inflation, so that essentials like cooking oil has had price increases of >100% some months, but the regime chose to drastically increase oppression enforcement and funds for imperialist ventures instead of food for the people.
Here's one of the many protests today, in Ilam, western Iran:
https://todon.eu/system/media_attachments/files/111/132/261/247/687/143/original/aa7332e0ade87de6.mp4
@6fa57bb1 Capitalism runs on misery.
Without misery, it can not force the people to accept exploitation for others' opulence and other inhumane conditions that are motor of Capitalism.
Unemployment, currently resulting in risking malnourishment, loss of shelter, deficient healthcare, death, is just the mechanism to regulate some of that misery. The misery is the fuel.
How about a huge mushroom cloud to start off a Thursday morning?
Seen by people in Saratov, SW Russia. Would worry anyone.
According to the Ministry of Emergency Situations, via the government's RIA Novosti, further via the SOTA news agency, it is a fire due to depressurization of the Peschany Umet-Storozhevka gas pipeline.
https://todon.eu/system/media_attachments/files/111/061/697/227/446/156/original/feda0435de7b4c46.mp4
Iran's "The Death Penalty; Main Tool of Political Repression in the Year of Woman, Life, Freedom Movement
[...]
Between September 2022 and September 2023, authorities executed at least 697 people, a 36% increase compared to the same period the previous year."
https://iranhr.net/en/articles/6198/
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Enjoy!
As you probably know, the regional elections are underway already in some parts of Russia.
Several reports of... "oddities", but this was the most amusing one I have seen so far.
Look at how orderly just a particular stack of ballots are, after having been dropped into a ballot box in Pushkino, ~30km NE of Moscow, while the other ballots in the same box kinda fell haphazardly from the top slot. Weeeird, huh. Aaaalmost as if someone was stuffing ballots into the box, but literally, hmmm? :-D
I've only seen more blatant electoral fraud under the Erdoğan-regime's several latest elections.
https://todon.eu/system/media_attachments/files/111/032/933/834/750/474/original/8bb652c9e00e5f83.mp4
A mob of Russian Nazis in Moscow beat up a fellow Nazi, because they thought the Nazi was anti-fascist
After the attack the assaulted Nazi explains to the assaulting Nazis actually being a member of the Nazi "Rusich" group (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rusich_Group) currently fighting for far-right authoritarian Putin's imperialist war of aggression in Ukraine, similar to the "Wagner" Nazi-gang.
- I am Rusich!
- [...] White Power?
- White Power!!!
- Why didn’t you say it before?
- Don’t you see? It's written all over me! (turns to display xenophobia all over the back)
https://todon.eu/system/media_attachments/files/111/029/356/953/243/706/original/83ee3ada1e52ce39.mp4
Baloch women spraying antiauthoritarian protest slogans in the city Gorgan/Astarabad, capital city of the minorities majority Golestan province, current northeast Iran.
Balochistan's southwestern part is currently held as Iran's southeast, where the protests sparked by the murder of Kurdish woman Jîna/Mahsa Amini by the regime's immoral "morality police" in Tehran still continue in mostly huge Friday protests consecutively every week for now soon a year, in spite of repression including huge actual massacre.
https://todon.eu/system/media_attachments/files/111/029/290/243/641/411/original/ab157f34f505ff9d.mp4
The actress Kosar Eftekhari is one of the very many people that lost eyes due to the ordered intentional aiming of shotgun fire to people's faces during repression of the "Women! Life! Freedom!"-protests against the Iran-regime, again as during previous major protest waves.
According to JinHA, the Women's News Agency a picture was published on Instagram of the actress now walking the streets of Tehran still refusing to have choice of headwear dictated by the brutally sexist regime, but now with the eyepatch which has become so common due to the regime's ongoing crimes against humanity.
I never link to Instagram (it is Facebook).
It seems the page in question, with 34k followers, now only displays an error-message anyway.
https://todon.eu/system/media_attachments/files/111/029/221/303/781/482/original/538e0f8a6674b881.jpg
Many times "pirated", cracked versions of computer games have been not just "the same" as buying through the official publisher, but the cracked version actually better since crackers have fixed genuine game bugs in the official version, increased performance by removing quality deteriorating copy protection present in the official version, removed parts of the copy protection that will cause instability not just while playing the game but adding constant system instability even after the game has been uninstalled or added some other extra value, so those that did NOT pay actually got a significantly better product than those that did.
Additionally, if someone pays for a game through Steam or similar instead of GOG, the product they bought can years later just be removed from existence through some corporate greed, so the customer doesn't even really own what they bought, but just rented it, whereas a "pirated" game installer can of course be archived locally and reused however many times the user wants to.
This is even worse.
"Rockstar Games reportedly sold games with Razor 1911 cracks on Steam", but the real cracked version was actually fine... whilst the official publisher's distribution of the cracked game had broken the crack, leaving the game nigh unplayable.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/gaming/rockstar-games-reportedly-sold-games-with-razor-1911-cracks-on-steam/
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